– It is a great pleasure, on behalf of the House, to welcome a delegation of Members of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, who are seated in the distinguished visitors’ gallery.

I am thinking for example of the Convention and Tourism Bureau of Greater Montreal (1230) The convention and tourism bureau's mandate is to promote tourist activities, not public health.

88. Deplores the continuing serious violations of human rights such as the use of child combatants by illegal armed groups in the conflict in Colombia, including several thousand under the age of 15; remains deeply concerned at the threat to human rights defenders in the country and urges, in this regard, the authorities of Colombia to take clear and effective measures so as to protect the life and the work of these persons; is concerned at the deplorable conditions in which a large number of Colombians are being kept, including minors, soldiers and police officers kidnapp ...[+++]ed more than seven years ago, members of Congress such as Jorge Eduardo Gechem Turbay, Oscar Tulio Lizcano and Luis Eladio Pérez Bonilla, members of the Valle regional assembly, the former minister Fernando de Araujo and the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt; supports the conclusions contained in the Declaration issued at the International Co-operation and Co-ordination Meeting for Colombia, which was adopted at Cartagena as a follow-up to the recommendations issued in London in the presence - inter alia - of the UN, and also the recommendations of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia;

85. Deplores the use of child combatants by illegal armed groups in the conflict in Colombia, including several thousand under the age of 15; remains concerned at the threat to human rights defenders in the country; is concerned at the deplorable conditions in which a large number of Colombians are being kept, including minors, soldiers and police officers kidnapped more than seven years ago, members of Congress such as Jorge. E. G ...[+++]echem, Oscar Tulio Lizcano and Luis Eladio Pérez, members of the Valle regional assembly, the former minister Fernando Araujo and the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt; supports the conclusions contained in the Declaration issued at the International Co-operation and Co-ordination Meeting for Colombia, which was adopted at Cartagena as a follow-up to the recommendations issued in London in the presence - inter alia - of the UN, and also the recommendations of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia;

For example, the Agency's exhibition stand at the 1999 A+A International Safety and Health Fair and Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany, generated a good deal of interest amongst the 50,000 visitors, as did a special Agency workshop, jointly organised with the German Focal Point, at the same event.